The Nature of Magic

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  • The Nature of Magic Book Detail

  • Author : Susan Greenwood
  • Release Date : 2020-06-03
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 212
  • ISBN 13 : 1000189821
  • File Size : 41,41 MB

The Nature of Magic by Susan Greenwood PDF Summary

Book Description: This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.

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